Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential participation in local elections: If he had to acquaint himself with the local conditions, he would think there would be a suspicion arising that he is not paying much attention to his main job. which is trying to be President for 160 million people. Of course he is interested in the Republican organization, and seeing Republican majorities come back. What he does hope to do is to produce a record that can stand on itself...
Sprawling Los Angeles yearns for the day when it will replace Philadelphia as the nation's third largest city. Local boosters confidently expected the great day was at hand when the 1950 census was tabulated, but they were disappointed: Philadelphia was still half a head taller, by a margin of 101,247 citizens. Last week Los Angeles added up a special-tax reapportionment census, and the results were maddening. In all Los Angeles, there were just 2,071,271 citizens. Philadelphia, with a 1950 population of 2,071,605, was still -barely-bigger. But chagrined city fathers were...
...Pella got some encouragement from the council's decision that jobs in any member country which remain unfilled after 30 days may henceforth be filled by bringing a worker from another member country. Theoretically, this would open undermanned British coal mines to thousands of Italian miners; in practice, local prejudices are not likely to yield...
Despite an article in the Daily Princetonian, which claimed that high-school girls consider the college boys "fast, fresh and fairyish," the local teen agers admire Princetons. The boys emulate the collegiate dress, the girls are always eager to accept dates with the few Princeton men who will ask them, and the whole town roots for the Tiger teams...
...pulling continues: from Cambridge a wishful tug toward Princeton's established emphases on College. Humanities, and Religion; from New Jersey, a hearty pull for the unrestricted life of the local college...